The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Together with Certain Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
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... against the holder , the United States courts will no decide , but will leave to be decided by the courts o any slave State the negro may be forced into by th master . This point is made , not to be 6 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
... against the holder , the United States courts will no decide , but will leave to be decided by the courts o any slave State the negro may be forced into by th master . This point is made , not to be 6 Lincoln and Douglas Debates.
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... decide at an election which is fixed for the first Monday in August next . It is true that the mode of reference , and the form of the submission , was not such as I could sanction with my vote , for the reason that it discriminated ...
... decide at an election which is fixed for the first Monday in August next . It is true that the mode of reference , and the form of the submission , was not such as I could sanction with my vote , for the reason that it discriminated ...
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... decide for themselves has bee submitted in its place . Fellow - citizens , while I devoted my best energie --all my energies , mental and physical - to th vindication of the great principle , and whilst th result has been such as will ...
... decide for themselves has bee submitted in its place . Fellow - citizens , while I devoted my best energie --all my energies , mental and physical - to th vindication of the great principle , and whilst th result has been such as will ...
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... decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits . I have seen the time when that principle was controverted . I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have ...
... decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits . I have seen the time when that principle was controverted . I have seen the time when all parties did not recognize the right of a people to have ...
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... decide th question for themselves , to have slavery or not , jus as they chose ; and my opposition to the Lecompto Constitution was not predicated upon the groun that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would m action have been ...
... decide th question for themselves , to have slavery or not , jus as they chose ; and my opposition to the Lecompto Constitution was not predicated upon the groun that it was a pro - slavery constitution , nor would m action have been ...
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